Wednesday, June 16, 2010
4:00 PM
Posted by
Marie Ryan
Labels:
Gulf Spill
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Obama Fail
The thrill is gone..or perhaps they just want to be relevant again. The AP did a Fact Check (albeit a gently worded one) on The Won's Oval Office faceplant Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON – In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either.
That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.
Obama aimed high in his prime-time Oval Office address Tuesday night — perhaps higher than the facts support and history teaches — as he vowed to restore livelihoods and nature from the still-unfolding calamity in the Gulf of Mexico.
The piece goes on to uncover 6 uses of hyperbole, obfuscation, and mendacious smooth talk. Obama spoke for 18 minutes..which means he lied every three minutes. We will have to consult our staff of experts, but we are fairly certain that is a new record for Obama, who generally cannot go longer than 2 minutes and 15 seconds between egregious falsehoods. He appears to have been a little off his game last night, someone off-camera may have been signaling him to 'plug the damn hole'.
